Zimbabwe's Mugabe Proclaims Himself Africa's Goldman Sachs

Since we first started discussing the new frontier of investment (or economic hitmen), Africa has been appearing more and more in the headlines - from labor conditions in the South to military action in the North. Natural resources and leverageable assets remain key as the infamous Zimbabwean 'dictator' Robert Mugabe, fighting for re-election at the age of 89, maintains that Zimbabwe's difficulties stem from a Western plot to re-colonize it. With more than 80% of the country unemployed but rampant inflation somewhat calmed, Reuters notes that Mugabe believes "It's God's choice" that he is running in this close election. Just like Goldman Sachs "doing God's work", Mugabe believes "this is a task the Lord might have wanted me to fulfill among my people...," regarding the liberation struggle for black economic empowerment. More than 4,000 out of an original 4,500 white-owned farms have been seized since 2000 under a program he says is aimed at correcting land ownership imbalances created by colonialism. The consensus is that a free and fair election will create a true democratic outcome, but as one local noted "with his record I just don't see how Mugabe can win a free and fair election." Indeed, though the jackals remain.

Robert Mugabe said he had a "divine task" to lead Zimbabwe, shrugging off concerns about his health and fitness for office as he prepares for what could be one the closest election battles since he came to power in 1980.

Few Zimbabweans are ruling out victory for the 89-year-old Mugabe even though his country, once an African success story, is in a decade-long economic slump worsened by Western sanctions and more than four fifths of the population is unemployed.

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Rampant inflation has calmed, the mining sector is buoyant and agriculture is picking up after turmoil caused by the seizure of farms from their white owners under Mugabe's policy of black empowerment.

Mugabe, Africa's oldest president, maintains that Zimbabwe's difficulties stem from a Western plot to re-colonize it, a view that strikes a chord with his supporters, who see the sanctions as punishment for a justified campaign to wrest their country's wealth from the hands of foreign corporations and the white minority.

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"Why is it that all my friends are gone and my relatives are gone and I continue to linger on? Then I say to myself, well, it's not my choice, it's God's choice," Mugabe said at the party late on Wednesday, which was attended by state media.

"This is a task the Lord might have wanted me to fulfill among my people...," he said. "I read it as a bidding of God... The bidding says you move forward ever."

More than 4,000 out of an original 4,500 white-owned farms have been seized since 2000 under a program he says is aimed at correcting land ownership imbalances created by colonialism.

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"I hear a lot of people talking about a tight race, but with his record I just don't see how Mugabe can win a free and fair election," said 28-year-old Charles Simukai, who was selling fruit on the streets of the capital Harare.

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"The general consensus is that you need a free and fair election for a real democratic outcome ... but there is no consensus that Zimbabwe will get that," said Eldred Masunungure, a political science professor at the University of Zimbabwe.

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But ZANU-PF appears to have accepted that Mugabe has maneuvered himself into a position where he ends up president for life, a position that opponents say he wants as security against possible prosecution for rights abuses.

"What we have ... is a president celebrating his 89th birthday while planning on how he can continue in power after so many years in office. That is not normal," said professor Masunungure.

Pope gave up the Papacy for Lent. This guy gives up nothing. Always interesting to hear how these leaders of the impoverished, while living in oppulence, were appointed by "the Lord". A little bit blasphemous?

Dontcha just love it?The white Rhodesian farmers (by and large, fact) who had fed much of the African continent were expropriate out of their lands (or many just plain murdered) which were then turned over to and managed by the good indigenous folk, turning such into a starving, lawless, rabble of misery.An entire culture up for the Darwin award?

For all their failings, they have been two African leaders refusing to get on board the Nato programme with the West

Especially memorable is Mugabe's speech in Rome in October 2005, where he compared Bush and Blair to Hitler and Mussolini, for their collusion in starting the Iraq war which killed over a million people:

« President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has denounced US President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as "the two unholy men of our millennium" in a speech to the UN food agency in Rome.

Making a rare appearance on the international stage because of EU travel sanctions imposed for alleged vote-rigging, Mugabe slated the two leaders as "international terrorists" for launching a war in Iraq and for meddling in the domestic affairs of small countries like his own.

"The US and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world. Even to interfere in our domestic affairs, and want to bring about what they call regime change.

"Where are their democratic tenets? Where is their morality? Where is their compliance with the salient principles of good governance?" asked Mugabe, under fire from both the US and Britain for persistent human rights abuses. »

Kaiser, that's precious.The best line is the reference to Tiger... "the son of an American Black and a Thai woman, a combination that not even a German geneticist would have figured..." what with all the eugenics popping up these days.Many thanks.

Mugabe and Obama seem to share a kindred spirit. At the rate of brainwashing Americans are enduring we might well see Blankfein and Dimon become the future POTUS and Obama as CEO of Goldman Sachs in the not too distant future.

No Obummer will be living in opulence while they fund his lifestyle. The rest of the country will continue its decline to 80% unemployment while Blankfein and Dimon continue their behind the scenes raping of the world.

cast your gaze further Obanana is a paid stooge for your oligarchs quit bemoaning the Obamatron he's bought and paid for instead look for the signature on his check and you find the source of your problems

IT IS VERY FUCKING SIMPLE, JUST USE YOUR SIMPLE METER AND POINT IT TO THE MONEY

I vote for Mugabe but suggest he modify his political message to include public hangings of banksters and a national bitcoin monetary system. Most political wannabees around the world would be elected on that platform.

Mugabe, like all the other Marxist losers, are great at taking a prosperous country and turning it into ruin. They capitalize on human weaknesses, like greed and envy, to stoke the masses into a frenzy of looting and stealing. If somebody has something of value and you want it...just take it. It's the undoing of civilization, and it's coming soon to your' neighborhood thanks to our own Mugabe of America. I think I hear a flash mob in the distance.

I went to school with some of the Rhodesian refugees, and I remember the stories they told of what it was like to be attacked in your home by mobs of armed thieves in the dead of night. They told me they were never without a firearm. Eventually, anyone with any sense just got the hell out of there with whatever wealth they could smuggle out in diamonds. It was a tragic tale of SHTF.

What's funny is that Rhodesia's farms alone fed half the continent. Now that they're all subsistence operations then can barely feed the peasants who're fortunate enough to live on the land and work a portion of it. The rest are starving, malnutritioned, and dying of diseases which they believe can be cured by raping babies.

But I don't disagree, the changeover was forced by the planet's most genocide-minded group. Whether the plans were formulated in Tel Aviv, Washington or New York is irrelevant, the fact that they exist is proof enough. Spread the word, all too few have woken up to the madness.

I'll tell ya "who do I mean" 'reverand 911'. Those fourth world ancestors of yours who also happened to hand over their own/your people" to the slavery industry, you moronic assholes.

Can you believe that Jesse Jackson was a huge supporter of Mugumby, even after countless stories emerged about what that tyrant was doing to his own people. That's right! Early on in Mugumby's first power grab. After at least hundreds of Mugumby's opposition/innocents were slaughtered, 'ole Jesse said he was "pained" to see things PROGRESS the way they have. The African people that were beaten, tortured and mutilated to death were "pained" as well!

In 2011, Jesse met with Mugumby to "discuss business". After the meeting, Jesse stated,"Zimbabwe's political stability created a "conductive" investment climate".

Muggumby orders the murder of AT LEAST HUNDREDS, and Jesse has a bout of amnesia when there happens to be a conductive investment climate in Zimbabwe. I partly agree with Arch-bishop Desmond Tu-Tu's response to what Mugumby did. He said, "Zimbabwe, is the shame of all of Africa." I only partly agree, because it is the shame of the world.

Well, all those brutal murders didn't matter much because 'reverand 911' was happy to see some "economic justice" being brutally imposed on those cracker ass honkey farmers. Now look at those farms now. 1/5 are unproductive and the land is now useless. Oh yeah. That 1/5 report came from a BBC broadcast, so that means that the real number of wasted/destroyed crop land is probably 90%. The murder rate of farmers is at least 8 times the national average! That is not compared to our/USA national average, but to South Africa's!!! Which, by the way, is among the murder and rape capitals of all the countries in the world!!!!!!!!!! (Last year, I believe they ranked 3rd in murder and #1 in rape. They pretty much have the handle on the 'rape capital crown'. As for murder? Over the last 20 years they are consistently in the top 5!!! Out of every single country in the entire world!!!!!!!!!!!)

Not only have they killed the farming,as well as the farmers, they also killed the tourism industry in South Africa. The BBC report did not sugar coat that story. Stay away from the resorts or you will be robbed and killed was basically the thrust and conclusion of that report.

Mr Mugumby keeps talkin' about how he knows 'the Lord', and has been given special preference by God. Well I wonder what God has to say about that. Oh wait. He already did have something to say about that:

How timely. I'm about half way through "The farmer at war" online. You can read it free here http://www.rhodesia.nl/farmeratwar.html#_Toc34366896 if interested. The book gives quite a few details on tactics used to fight the Terrs, defenses, etc. It's a great example of how a Marxist redistribution scheme, paired with a psychopath like Mugabe, can turn a potentially very productive nation into just another third world shit hole.

...or alternatively - how the removal of the 'privileged class' (the white farmers), which were put in place by colonialism (that 'theft of property' thing you're all so keen on - NOW) can damageyour country economically as they remove all the national wealth they can.

Zimbabwe has nothing to do with Marxism - but don't let the truth get in the way of your quota for using the word 'Marx' 50 times a day.

China will take over Africa and destroy the black race there. They are one of the most racist groups on earth, and killed 50-70 million of their own under Mao. Imagine what they think of any Africans in their way of land and resources. They won't hesitate to destroy them wholesale!

Africa will cease to be a black continent and become a yellow one. Fuck Zimbabwe and all the rest!

Mugabe was lambasted for his crazy economics and the making of poverty from his country with his desperate cling to power through economic madness.

...and yet here we have the same countries who criticised him doing exactly the same to their people. Robbing them through economic mis-management.

So I ask you all a simple question.

How can you be sure Mugabe is the bad guy - where do you get this impression from - is it from the same people who lied to you about Saddam? Lied about 'the war on terror' and lied about the true cause of the economic crisis?

So why do you still listen to them - despite their history of lies?

I bet the Germans all thought DeGaulle was a dictator and an 'evil man' and the Third reich justified their invasion of France.

It's coming to something when you think the word of a crazy African dictator is indeed more reliable than the word of y0our own leader(s)